CA2189374A1 - Apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package - Google Patents
Apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails packageInfo
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Abstract
The invention relates to an apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package which has been removed from a slaughtered bird. The apparatus comprises a conveyor for conveying of the entrails package in a suspended condition, separation means for spacing apart of at least the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the package at the other hand, and loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package. The separation means can comprise a rotating roller extending into the conveying direction of the conveyor, with a profiled surface.
The loosening means can consist of a guiding receiving the assembly of heart and lungs and of means adjoining said guiding for loosening the assembly of heart and lungs from the package.
The loosening means can consist of a guiding receiving the assembly of heart and lungs and of means adjoining said guiding for loosening the assembly of heart and lungs from the package.
Description
21 8~374 Apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrai~
package The invention relates to an apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package which has been removed from a slaughtered bird, comprising a conveyor for conveying the entrails package in a suspended condition.
After the entrails package has been removed from within a slaughtered bird it has to be divided into parts, because said parts have different destinations. In this aspect it is important that dividing such an entrails package occurs in a uniform and reproducable manner, also at the high production rates applied in modern slaughtering lines.
One of the parts of the entrails package which has to be removed is the assembly of heart and lungs. There already exist apparatus which then divide such an assembly in a heart at one hand and the lungs at the other hand; however, such apparatus are not capable of removing the assem.bly of heart and lungs from a complete entrails package.
Thus it is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package, using which uniform and reproducable results are obtained.
Thus the apparatus according to the invention is characterised by separation means for spacing apart of at least the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the package at the other hand, and further by following loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package.
Applicant did realise that succesfully loosening the heart and lungs from the r~m~;n~er of the package can only be realised when previously the heart and lungs are spaced apart from the remainder of the package. Thus the separation means do not yet loosen the heart and lungs from the package, but are only meant to offer sufficient space to the following loosening means such that these can operate in an optimal manner.
In correspondence with a preferred embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention the separation means comprise a rotating roller extending substantially hori-zontally and into the conveying direction of the conveyor, with a profiled surface, wherein the roller is positioned such relative to the conveyor, that the package will engage the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly.
The entrails package which is conveyed by the conveyor in a suspended condition (whereby for example the stomach rests upon a guide and the rem~;n~er of the entrails package depends below the guide) will engage said upwardly rotating side of the roller. There it appears that the heart and lungs are taken along by the profile of the roller and are moved towards the opposite side (the downwardly rotating side) of the roller. In this way the heart and lungs are positioned at some distance from the r~m~in~r of the package, which remainder r~m~ins at the original lupwardly rotating) side of the roller.
Further said rotating roller can already partly loosen tissue connections which are present between the guts and other parts of the entrails package, as a result of which the division of the entrails package into parts, as will occur later, is promoted.
The profile of the roller can consist of projecting ribs, notches or alike. The ribs can have different shapes; in most cases the most appropriate shape can be determined by tests.
Such as to further improve the operation of the rotating roller, it is preferred that guiding means are provided at the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly for maintaining and for guiding the rem~;n~er of the package at that side. Like this it is possible to prevent in a reliable m~nner that unwantedly also the remainder of the package is taken along by the roller and moves towards the opposite side (the downwardly rotating side) of the roller together with the heart and lungs. Such guiding means can consist of appropriately bent and cooperating rods, which therebetween define a guiding track for the rem~;n~er of the package. If necessary, the guiding means can extend along the entire length of the apparatus.
As mentioned before, the separation means are followed by loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the rem~;nfler of the package. In correspondence with a preferred e-m-bodiment of the apparatus according to the invention the loosening means consist of a guiding receiving the assembly of heart and lungs which follows the separation means, and of means adjoining said guiding for disconnecting the connection between the assembly and the rem~;n~er of the package. Because the heart and lungs are positioned at some distance from the rem~;n~er of the package it is now possible through using the separation means to lead only the assembly comprising heart and lungs into the guide which belongs to the loosening means, whereas the r~m~;n~er of the package is positioned outside said guide. The means adjoining said guide for disconnecting the connection between the assembly and the rem~;n~er of the package then can become effectively operative.
It is preferred, that the guiding consists of a slot and in that the means for disconnecting said connection consist of obstruction means immediately following said slot and acting on the assembly of heart and lungs. When the assembly comprising heart and lungs moves along in the slot it reaches the obstruction means which obstruct a further motion of the heart and lungs; however, because the conveyor moves along the entrails package the heart and lungs are torn loose from the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package by means of the obstruction means. Next, this assembly of heart and lungs can be collected in an appropriate way and be supplied to further processing means (for example for separating heart and lungs).
Constructively it is possible, that the obstruction means are defined by two pins extending at both sides of and perpendicularly to said slot. The tissue connection between the assembly of heart and lungs at one hand and the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package at the other hand is sufficiently narrow for a passage through the slot; generally the heart and lungs are positioned below said slot. Because the pins basically define a passage which has just about the same width as the slot, the heart and lungs cannot pass these pins, as a result of which they are torn loose from the remainder of the package.
Further there is the possibility, that one of said pins has been replaced by a rotating cylinder having an axis of rotation which extends in parallel with the other pin and having a helically extending external profile. By means of such a rotating cylinder it can be avoided that packages torn loose comprising heart and lungs obstruct the passage. In this aspect it is further advantageous, if the direction of rotation of said cylinder is such that its surface at the slot moves along with the assembly of heart and lungs and in that the helically extending profile is such that a disconnected assembly of heart and lungs is moved away from said slot. Due to the combination of direction of rotation and profile of the cylinder the disconnected heart and lungs are, in a manner of speaking, pulled out of the passage in parallel to said pin.
As noted, tearing loose the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package occurs because the remainder of the package keeps moving along. Although such a motion can be caused directly by the conveyor, this is not preferred, because as a result several tissue connections between for example heart and lungs at one hand and for example stomach at the other hand are excessively stressed. A result could be that the entrails package is torn at a not desired position.
In order to avoid this an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention is preferred, according to which auxiliary conveying means are applied for synchronously with the conveyor moving the assembly of heart and lungs through the guide. For example such auxiliary conveying means can comprise a disc with drivers, wherein the guide extends concentrically with the disc along part of the circumference thereof. Such a disc with its drivers directly engages the tissue connection between the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the entrails package at the other hand, such that, when the heart and lungs are obstructed by the obstruction means, tearing loose will occur also at said specific tissue connection.
By the way, the axis of rotation of such a disc can coincide with the axis of rotation of the rotating cylinder acting as one of the obstruction means, if applied.
Finally an embodiment is mentioned in which at least part of the guide is pivotable against a spring load. As a result an adaption of the guide can occur taking into account the dimensions of a received assembly comprising heart and lungs.
Hereinafter the invention will be elucidated referring to the drawing, in which an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention is illustrated. Herein:
fig. 1 shows schematically a side elevational view of an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention;
fig. 2 shows two views according to II in fig. 1;
fig. 3 shows a view according to III in fig. 1, and fig. 4 shows a section according to IV-IV in fig. 3.
Prior to a detailed discussion of the figures it is noted that the apparatus and its parts shown therein are indicated only schematically and that for the sake of clarity in particular ratios between different parts can deviate from practice.
In fig. 1 a conveyor 2 comprising drivers 1 is indicated. The drivers 1 can engage for example stomachs 3 of 21 ~9374 an entrails package 4. Hereby the stomachs 3 can be supported by a guide 5, only indicated schematically, whereas the rem~;n~er of the entrails package 4 depends down below the guide. The direction of motion of the conveyor is indicated by an arrow.
It is noted that basically it is possible too that the entrails package is conveyed in suspended condition differently. It is only important that at least the assembly of heart and lungs and guts is conveyed in a freely suspending manner.
At some distance below the conveyor 2 a roller 6 is positioned which can rotate around its centre line 7. The direction of rotation is indicated by arrows in fig. 2. At the surface of the roller 6 profiles are provided which in the illustrated embodiment are shaped as ribs 8. Further, at the upwardly moving side of the roller 6 a number of guiding means 9, for example rods, are provided.
When an entrails package 4 reaches the roller 6 initially the entire package 4 is positioned at the right hand upwardly moving side of the roller 6, as seen in fig. 2. Due to the rotational "love",ent and gripping action of the ribs 8 at least the assembly comprising heart and lungs 10 is moved to the opposite, downwardly moving, side of the roller 6. The rem~n;ng part of the package 4, especially the depending guts, is received between the guiding rods 9 and is held thereby. Like this one can avoid unwantedly that this part too is moved towards the other side of the roller 6.
Thus, by means of the roller 6 the assembly of heart and lungs 10 is positioned at some distance from the rem~-n~er of the entrail package 4, without eliminating the interconnection therebetween. Immediately following the roller 6 there are provided loosening means 11 which comprise a slot 12 (see fig. 3) defining a guide for the assembly of heart and lungs. Initially said slot narrows and next extends along some distance concentrically with a disc 13. Said disc 13 comprises drivers 14. Although several embodiments are possible, in the illustrated embodiment the guide shaped like this comprises two uppermost cooperating plates 15, 16 which thereinbetween define a slot 12, and two lowermost plates 17 and 18 co-operating therewith (only visible in fig. 4). The disc 13 with drivers 14 is housed between the plates 15 and 16 at one hand and the plates 17 and 18 at the other hand.
After leaving the roller 6 the assembly 10 comprising heart and lungs is moved through the narrowing slot 12 below plates 15 until 18, wherein the tissue connection between said assembly 10 and the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package 4 extends upwardly through the slot 12. Next, the drivers 14 of the disc 13 engage said tissue connection and take the assembly along in synchronisation with the conveyor 2. Thus, during said motion moving along the assembly of heart and lungs 10 is not caused by the propelling force of the conveyor 2, but instead by the motion of the drivers 14 of the disc 13, such that no undesired stresses are created in the entrails package 4.
After the assembly of heart and lungs 10 has in this manner been carried along by the drivers 14 over some distance said assembly 10 reaches the pin 19 provided on the lowermost plate 17 and a cylinder 20 positioned below plate 18, which extend at both sides of and perpendicularly to the slot 12. Said pin 19 and cylinder 20 obstruct the heart and lungs 10, as a result of whlch these are torn loose from the remainder of the entrails package 4.
The cylinder 20, which has been indicated in fig. 4 in side elevational view and not in cross-section, comprises at its circumference a helically extending profile 22 and is driven around an axis of rotation 21 extending in parellel to pin 19 in such a way, that the profile acts onto the heart and lungs with a downward force, as seen in fig. 4. Like this one can avoid effectively that the heart and lungs block the passage between cylinder 20 and the pin. The axis of rotation 21 can coincide with the axis of rotation of the disc 13.
- 2i 89374 It has not been shown that part of the guide 15, 16 can be pivotable for obtaining an automatic adaption to entrails packages 4 having different ~;m~n.~ions.
The loosened assembly of heart and lungs can be supplied to means not shown further for separating the heart at one hand and the lungs at the other hand. Further the remainder of the entrails package, from which the heart and lungs are now removed, can be supplied to means not shown further to separate said package into parts.
Instead of the pin 19 and cylinder 20 acting as obstruction means, also different means can be applied for loosening the connection between the assembly 10 comprising heart and lungs and the rPm~in~er of the package 4, for example two pins or knives.
The invention is not limited to the embodiment described before which can be varied widely within the scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
package The invention relates to an apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package which has been removed from a slaughtered bird, comprising a conveyor for conveying the entrails package in a suspended condition.
After the entrails package has been removed from within a slaughtered bird it has to be divided into parts, because said parts have different destinations. In this aspect it is important that dividing such an entrails package occurs in a uniform and reproducable manner, also at the high production rates applied in modern slaughtering lines.
One of the parts of the entrails package which has to be removed is the assembly of heart and lungs. There already exist apparatus which then divide such an assembly in a heart at one hand and the lungs at the other hand; however, such apparatus are not capable of removing the assem.bly of heart and lungs from a complete entrails package.
Thus it is an object of the invention to provide an apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package, using which uniform and reproducable results are obtained.
Thus the apparatus according to the invention is characterised by separation means for spacing apart of at least the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the package at the other hand, and further by following loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package.
Applicant did realise that succesfully loosening the heart and lungs from the r~m~;n~er of the package can only be realised when previously the heart and lungs are spaced apart from the remainder of the package. Thus the separation means do not yet loosen the heart and lungs from the package, but are only meant to offer sufficient space to the following loosening means such that these can operate in an optimal manner.
In correspondence with a preferred embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention the separation means comprise a rotating roller extending substantially hori-zontally and into the conveying direction of the conveyor, with a profiled surface, wherein the roller is positioned such relative to the conveyor, that the package will engage the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly.
The entrails package which is conveyed by the conveyor in a suspended condition (whereby for example the stomach rests upon a guide and the rem~;n~er of the entrails package depends below the guide) will engage said upwardly rotating side of the roller. There it appears that the heart and lungs are taken along by the profile of the roller and are moved towards the opposite side (the downwardly rotating side) of the roller. In this way the heart and lungs are positioned at some distance from the r~m~in~r of the package, which remainder r~m~ins at the original lupwardly rotating) side of the roller.
Further said rotating roller can already partly loosen tissue connections which are present between the guts and other parts of the entrails package, as a result of which the division of the entrails package into parts, as will occur later, is promoted.
The profile of the roller can consist of projecting ribs, notches or alike. The ribs can have different shapes; in most cases the most appropriate shape can be determined by tests.
Such as to further improve the operation of the rotating roller, it is preferred that guiding means are provided at the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly for maintaining and for guiding the rem~;n~er of the package at that side. Like this it is possible to prevent in a reliable m~nner that unwantedly also the remainder of the package is taken along by the roller and moves towards the opposite side (the downwardly rotating side) of the roller together with the heart and lungs. Such guiding means can consist of appropriately bent and cooperating rods, which therebetween define a guiding track for the rem~;n~er of the package. If necessary, the guiding means can extend along the entire length of the apparatus.
As mentioned before, the separation means are followed by loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the rem~;nfler of the package. In correspondence with a preferred e-m-bodiment of the apparatus according to the invention the loosening means consist of a guiding receiving the assembly of heart and lungs which follows the separation means, and of means adjoining said guiding for disconnecting the connection between the assembly and the rem~;n~er of the package. Because the heart and lungs are positioned at some distance from the rem~;n~er of the package it is now possible through using the separation means to lead only the assembly comprising heart and lungs into the guide which belongs to the loosening means, whereas the r~m~;n~er of the package is positioned outside said guide. The means adjoining said guide for disconnecting the connection between the assembly and the rem~;n~er of the package then can become effectively operative.
It is preferred, that the guiding consists of a slot and in that the means for disconnecting said connection consist of obstruction means immediately following said slot and acting on the assembly of heart and lungs. When the assembly comprising heart and lungs moves along in the slot it reaches the obstruction means which obstruct a further motion of the heart and lungs; however, because the conveyor moves along the entrails package the heart and lungs are torn loose from the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package by means of the obstruction means. Next, this assembly of heart and lungs can be collected in an appropriate way and be supplied to further processing means (for example for separating heart and lungs).
Constructively it is possible, that the obstruction means are defined by two pins extending at both sides of and perpendicularly to said slot. The tissue connection between the assembly of heart and lungs at one hand and the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package at the other hand is sufficiently narrow for a passage through the slot; generally the heart and lungs are positioned below said slot. Because the pins basically define a passage which has just about the same width as the slot, the heart and lungs cannot pass these pins, as a result of which they are torn loose from the remainder of the package.
Further there is the possibility, that one of said pins has been replaced by a rotating cylinder having an axis of rotation which extends in parallel with the other pin and having a helically extending external profile. By means of such a rotating cylinder it can be avoided that packages torn loose comprising heart and lungs obstruct the passage. In this aspect it is further advantageous, if the direction of rotation of said cylinder is such that its surface at the slot moves along with the assembly of heart and lungs and in that the helically extending profile is such that a disconnected assembly of heart and lungs is moved away from said slot. Due to the combination of direction of rotation and profile of the cylinder the disconnected heart and lungs are, in a manner of speaking, pulled out of the passage in parallel to said pin.
As noted, tearing loose the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package occurs because the remainder of the package keeps moving along. Although such a motion can be caused directly by the conveyor, this is not preferred, because as a result several tissue connections between for example heart and lungs at one hand and for example stomach at the other hand are excessively stressed. A result could be that the entrails package is torn at a not desired position.
In order to avoid this an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention is preferred, according to which auxiliary conveying means are applied for synchronously with the conveyor moving the assembly of heart and lungs through the guide. For example such auxiliary conveying means can comprise a disc with drivers, wherein the guide extends concentrically with the disc along part of the circumference thereof. Such a disc with its drivers directly engages the tissue connection between the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the entrails package at the other hand, such that, when the heart and lungs are obstructed by the obstruction means, tearing loose will occur also at said specific tissue connection.
By the way, the axis of rotation of such a disc can coincide with the axis of rotation of the rotating cylinder acting as one of the obstruction means, if applied.
Finally an embodiment is mentioned in which at least part of the guide is pivotable against a spring load. As a result an adaption of the guide can occur taking into account the dimensions of a received assembly comprising heart and lungs.
Hereinafter the invention will be elucidated referring to the drawing, in which an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention is illustrated. Herein:
fig. 1 shows schematically a side elevational view of an embodiment of the apparatus according to the invention;
fig. 2 shows two views according to II in fig. 1;
fig. 3 shows a view according to III in fig. 1, and fig. 4 shows a section according to IV-IV in fig. 3.
Prior to a detailed discussion of the figures it is noted that the apparatus and its parts shown therein are indicated only schematically and that for the sake of clarity in particular ratios between different parts can deviate from practice.
In fig. 1 a conveyor 2 comprising drivers 1 is indicated. The drivers 1 can engage for example stomachs 3 of 21 ~9374 an entrails package 4. Hereby the stomachs 3 can be supported by a guide 5, only indicated schematically, whereas the rem~;n~er of the entrails package 4 depends down below the guide. The direction of motion of the conveyor is indicated by an arrow.
It is noted that basically it is possible too that the entrails package is conveyed in suspended condition differently. It is only important that at least the assembly of heart and lungs and guts is conveyed in a freely suspending manner.
At some distance below the conveyor 2 a roller 6 is positioned which can rotate around its centre line 7. The direction of rotation is indicated by arrows in fig. 2. At the surface of the roller 6 profiles are provided which in the illustrated embodiment are shaped as ribs 8. Further, at the upwardly moving side of the roller 6 a number of guiding means 9, for example rods, are provided.
When an entrails package 4 reaches the roller 6 initially the entire package 4 is positioned at the right hand upwardly moving side of the roller 6, as seen in fig. 2. Due to the rotational "love",ent and gripping action of the ribs 8 at least the assembly comprising heart and lungs 10 is moved to the opposite, downwardly moving, side of the roller 6. The rem~n;ng part of the package 4, especially the depending guts, is received between the guiding rods 9 and is held thereby. Like this one can avoid unwantedly that this part too is moved towards the other side of the roller 6.
Thus, by means of the roller 6 the assembly of heart and lungs 10 is positioned at some distance from the rem~-n~er of the entrail package 4, without eliminating the interconnection therebetween. Immediately following the roller 6 there are provided loosening means 11 which comprise a slot 12 (see fig. 3) defining a guide for the assembly of heart and lungs. Initially said slot narrows and next extends along some distance concentrically with a disc 13. Said disc 13 comprises drivers 14. Although several embodiments are possible, in the illustrated embodiment the guide shaped like this comprises two uppermost cooperating plates 15, 16 which thereinbetween define a slot 12, and two lowermost plates 17 and 18 co-operating therewith (only visible in fig. 4). The disc 13 with drivers 14 is housed between the plates 15 and 16 at one hand and the plates 17 and 18 at the other hand.
After leaving the roller 6 the assembly 10 comprising heart and lungs is moved through the narrowing slot 12 below plates 15 until 18, wherein the tissue connection between said assembly 10 and the r~m~;n~er of the entrails package 4 extends upwardly through the slot 12. Next, the drivers 14 of the disc 13 engage said tissue connection and take the assembly along in synchronisation with the conveyor 2. Thus, during said motion moving along the assembly of heart and lungs 10 is not caused by the propelling force of the conveyor 2, but instead by the motion of the drivers 14 of the disc 13, such that no undesired stresses are created in the entrails package 4.
After the assembly of heart and lungs 10 has in this manner been carried along by the drivers 14 over some distance said assembly 10 reaches the pin 19 provided on the lowermost plate 17 and a cylinder 20 positioned below plate 18, which extend at both sides of and perpendicularly to the slot 12. Said pin 19 and cylinder 20 obstruct the heart and lungs 10, as a result of whlch these are torn loose from the remainder of the entrails package 4.
The cylinder 20, which has been indicated in fig. 4 in side elevational view and not in cross-section, comprises at its circumference a helically extending profile 22 and is driven around an axis of rotation 21 extending in parellel to pin 19 in such a way, that the profile acts onto the heart and lungs with a downward force, as seen in fig. 4. Like this one can avoid effectively that the heart and lungs block the passage between cylinder 20 and the pin. The axis of rotation 21 can coincide with the axis of rotation of the disc 13.
- 2i 89374 It has not been shown that part of the guide 15, 16 can be pivotable for obtaining an automatic adaption to entrails packages 4 having different ~;m~n.~ions.
The loosened assembly of heart and lungs can be supplied to means not shown further for separating the heart at one hand and the lungs at the other hand. Further the remainder of the entrails package, from which the heart and lungs are now removed, can be supplied to means not shown further to separate said package into parts.
Instead of the pin 19 and cylinder 20 acting as obstruction means, also different means can be applied for loosening the connection between the assembly 10 comprising heart and lungs and the rPm~in~er of the package 4, for example two pins or knives.
The invention is not limited to the embodiment described before which can be varied widely within the scope of the invention as defined by the claims.
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1. Apparatus for removing the heart and lungs from an entrails package which has been removed from a slaughtered bird, comprising a conveyor for conveying the entrails package in a suspended condition, characterised, by separation means for spacing apart of at least the heart and lungs at one hand and the remainder of the package at the other hand, and further by following loosening means for loosening the heart and lungs from the remainder of the package.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterised in that the separation means comprise a rotating roller extending substantially horizontally and into the conveying direction of the conveyor, with a profiled surface, wherein the roller is positioned such relative to the conveyor, that the package will engage the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly.
3. Apparatus according to claim 2, characterised int that the profile of the roller consists of projecting ribs, notches or alike.
4. Apparatus according to claim 2 or 3, characterised in that guiding means are provided at the side of the roller that is rotating upwardly for maintaining and for guiding the remainder of the package at that side.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1, characterised in that the loosening means consist of a guiding receiving the assembly of heart and lungs which follows the separation means, and of means adjoining said guiding for disconnecting the connection between the assembly and the remainder of the package.
6. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterised in that the guiding consists of a slot and in that the means for disconnecting said connection consist of obstruction means immediately following said slot and acting on the assembly of heart and lungs.
7. Apparatus according to claim 6, characterised in that the obstruction means are defined by two pins extending at both sides of and perpendicularly to said slot.
8. Apparatus according to claim 7, characterised in that one of said pins has been replaced by a rotating cylinder having an axis of rotation which extends in parallel with the other pin and having a helically extending external profile.
9. Apparatus according to claim 8, characterised in that the direction of rotation of said cylinder is such that its surface at the slot moves along with the assembly of heart and lungs and in that the helically extending profile is such that a disconnected assembly of heart and lungs is moved away from said slot.
10. Apparatus according to one of the claims 5-9, characterised by auxiliary conveying means for synchronously with the conveyor moving the assembly of heart and lungs through the guide.
11. Apparatus according to claim 10, characterised in that the auxiliary conveying means comprise a disc with drivers, wherein the guide extends concentrically with the disc along part of the circumference thereof.
12. Apparatus according to claim 5, characterised in that at least part of the guide is pivotable against a spring load.
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